Washington Olficials Perplexed Over Fai HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Jk LXXXIV— No. 266 I EDUCATION, NOT \ HEREDITY, MAKES FOR CHARACTER \ Institute Speaker Pooh-Poohs v Idea That Environment Is Big Factor AWARD CORN PRIZES Teachers Urged to Organize Parent Associations; Favor School Centralization Declaring that hereditary influences and environment have nothing to do with moxtlding children's characters, but that education alone controls them. Dr. Arthur Holmes, dean of the general faculty, Pennsylvania State College, In his addres: this morning in the House of Representatives, spoke at length on "the force of suggestion." The address was given at the clos ing session of the 63d annual Insti tute of Dauphin County Teachers, who have been meeting ail of this week In the State Capitol. Dr. Holmes said that the teachers alone were responsible for the charac ters which the children formed, and pooh-poohed the Idea that anything of the past could control the boys and girls. 1 "What you think is what you will do, and what you will become, and what you make the children think will bring the same result," he declared. "First be a man or a woman, then a teacher." He also asserted that the teacher re- ] gardless of physical size or strength, j can exert the power of suggestion and j character-forming over the pupils. | He told them that if they only weigh-j ed 97 pounds, they should have 95 ( pounds of backbone. Dr. Holmes said that "stubborn peo ple are the ones with few ideas," and that it is more difficult to cause stub born persons to change one idea than it is to put a new Idea Into their minds. Dr. O. L. Warren, of Elmtra. N. Y.. jm then spoke on "The Safe Chauffeur." lie said that the 500,000 teachers in this country were the greatest chauf feurs in the work representing all kinds of interests. He also claimed that many teachers were responsible for the pedogogical wrecks that were made of some men and women, and j said that teachers should always look' [Continued on Page 10.] Dr. Hamilton Tells of Historical Harrisburg Quaint reminiscences of his boy-! hood days were given by Dr Hugh Hamilton in his second of a series of interesting notes on Dauphin county before the Historical Society of Dau phin county at Its regular meeting last night. He told of how the city got its sup ply of milk and water back in those days and said that disease was not nearly so prevalent as now. Follow ing Dr. Hamilton's address several relics of historical value were given the society. Among these were a deed made out by David Harris, great grandson of John Harris, the trader, presented by Mrs. I.aube. 420 Berry hill street. Nine old books were given by Jefferson Scheffer and Thomas >l. Jones gave It an old magazine printed here in" 1809 by Gustavus S. Peters. Two Stock Cars Telescope When Air Is Applied Two empty stock cars were wrecked this morning in the Enola yards as a result of a sudden application of air brakes on a westbound freight train. The cars were near the center of the train and buckled when the air was applied. One car telescoped the other. The' wreck occurred betwen Enola roundhouse and West Fairview, tying up yard traffic for a short time. No one was hurt. The members of the crew who were in the cabin were knocked down by the sudden stop of the train. BR VIS'S ARE NOT ALWAYS REALTY'S COUNTERPART Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 12.—Brains don't always go with beauty and science can prove It, Dr. W. E. Fer nald told Radcliffe College girls. His remark met with scattering applause. THE WEATHER For Harrlf»hiirj( tori vicinity* Fair fo-nfftht and !lean temperature, 45. Normal temperature, 43. DETECTIVE IBACH LOST AN HOUR Red Lights Flash Incessantly For Sleuth Who Disappeared From Motorcycle DROPPED IN TRAFFIC MAZE Decided His Life Was Worth More Than Nickel and Took Trolley ( Joseph Ibach, city detective, this morning was lost for one hour and the loss caused sixty minutes of \4orry at the police station and the | lushing of red lights all over the city. jT!\e last man to converse with Detec 'tixip Ibach was George Fetrow, motor [ cyc'le officer. The sleuth, with Patrolman Fet row, started on a motorcycle for the upper end of the city. The Bertillon expert was on the rear seat. A mixup of automobiles and other vehicles in Market street, near the police station, made a zigzag course necessary for the motorcycle. Front street was reached In safety and the motorcycle had crossed Wal nut street when Fetrow missed Ibach. The police department was notified, and the search started for the miss ing officer. One hour passed and then came a call from uptown. "Why are the red lights on?" asked Ibach himself. "For you, where have you been?" came the answer from Charles Fleck, desk officer. "Patrolmen are hunting you in nooks and corners all over town." "I did not want to take chances diving through traffic congestion on a motorcycle. My life's worth more than a nickel carfare so I took the trolley uptown." The red lights were extinguished. Sleuth White Thinks He Lost 10 Pounds Getting Assessment Reduced With the perspiration running in small streams over his double chin hat in hand and coat open. Harry White, city detective, walked into the police station to-day and sighed. "Whew I Jimminy crickets, but I'm glad that's over." He said lie had had a two hour fight with the city assessors on an appeal to have his triennial as sessment reduced SSOO. Detective White owns his home at 121u North Second street. According to his tale of woe liis assessment notice read SSOO more than any other property owner in his locality. He wailed: "Just think of It, SSOO more than anyone else. Why they must think I own a brownstone mansion. I had an awful fight on my hands to have my assessmen reduced, but I proved to them I was not a millionaire. I'll bet I lost ten pounds." Redfield Hunting Men Who Had Medals Awarded Them For Heroic Deeds By Associated Press Washington, D. C.. Nov. 12. l nformation is wanted by Secretary Red field as to the wnereabouts of sixteen members of the former crew of the American steamer Kroonland, of the Bed Star Bine, to whom medals award ed by Congress for tlieir heroism in rescuing eighty-nine persons from the burning steamer Volturno, in the North Atlantic ocean in October, 1913, remain to be presented. Congress by resolution adopted March 14 1914. expressed Its thanks to the Kroonland's officers and crew for their gallant work and appropriated SIO,OOO for the purchase of a gold watch and chain for Captain Paul H. Krei bohm and gold, silver and bronze medals for the others Secretary Red field was authorized to make the pur chases and present them. All of the Kroonland's officers and crew, numbering forty, have received their gifts except the sixteen whom Secretary Redfield Is having consider able difficulty in finding. This is Il lustrated by tiie fact that of the men who have already received medals, one was found In London and the others in the Bolgian army. Wilson Will See Army-Navy Game; Wife's Death Halted Attendance Last Year By Associated Press ■ Washington, D. C.. Nov. 12. Presi dent Wilson has practicallv decided to attend . e Army-Navy football game, at New York. November 27. He attend ed the game two years ago. but was unable to be present last year because j of Mrs. Wilson's death. Fire Traps Must Go Says State Marshal ' State Fire Marshal J. L. Baldwin has just received word of the success ful result of the first trial of a charge I brought against a property owner for failing to remove a fire hazard. The case was brought by Marshal Baldwin through the Attorney General's de | partment against John W. Keast, of New Castle. Keast having failed to re move a dilapidated building at Ell wood City wtilch had been declared a danger to the community by Deputy Marshal Frank McKim. The building was declared by witnesses to be a menace to other buildings and because of Keast's refusal to act he was fined SSO and costs. Marshal Bali win says that there will be many more cases just like the El wood City matier, as he will Insist on a clean-up, although not desiring to •>e hard on property owners who try to abate fire traps. Cambria Steel Records Broken in September By Associated Press Johnstown, Pa., Nov. 12. An nouncement was made yesterday that the production la«t month of the Cam bria Steel Company exceeded all rec ords of the company, the output being 122,069 tons of finished product. The previous best record was 107.708 tons. The average for each of the furnaces was about 486 tons each 24 hours. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOV EMBER 12, 1915. I THIRD BIG WAR MUNITIONS PLANT ABLAZE IN ONE DAY pr~- -~- r y *« K.OZOLJMG PLANT F/A£. ffiwMWWMi &Z&/K£. FIRE AT THP: ROEBLING PLANT AT TRENTON, N. J. The tire in the immense plant of the John A. Roebllng's Sons Company, which is lilllng war orders for the Allies, threatened all of Trenton. N. J., where the plant is located and was the third lire in American munitions plants within 2 4 hours. The Eddystone plant of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel Company at South Bethlehem, Pa., were also victims of tires. The Blackthorn plant of the Roebllng Works, a few blocks from the plant burned, was the scene of a fire on January 18, last. At that time it was believed the fire was of incendiary origin and the latest fire lias strengthened belief that anti-ally fanatics have been setting the tires. The loss is estimated at more than a mil lion dollars. DELAYS PERPLEX U. S. OFFICIALS Information on Sinking of A neon a Awaited in • Washington By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ Nov. 12. —State Department officials were perplexed to-day over the unexplained delays In getting definite official information on the sinking of the Italian liner An cona with probable loss of American passengers. No dispatches had reached the State Department early to-day al though Secretary Lansing had ex pected to get word from Rome, Mar seilles and other points near the scene of the disaster. All information so far has been fragmentary. A consular official has been or dered to Tunis from a nearby post on the assumption that Consul James B. Young is not there, and on the offi cial's arrival he is expected to get dis patches through as quickly as pos sible. Meanwhile Ambassador Page at Home is expected to send some defi nite official details. His official dis patches so far make no reference to the circumstances of the firing upon the liner, the question of warning, the nationality of the submarine and other details which are to be cleared up as promptly as possible by thv tak ing of testimony of survivors. NO INFORMATION RKCKIVED By Associated Press New York, Nov. 12.—N0 informa tion has yet been rer-eived in regard to the sinking of the steamer Aneona ; by the agent here of the Italian line, despite their urgent cables to Italy for details. City Getting Cleaner Thinks Dr. Raunick j More than 850 wagonioaos of ! refuse and rubbish have been removed from the city during the first five days of the annual Fall clean-up week. Seventeen dead animals and 96 wagon loads of garbage are included in the totals for the week. Last year during the first Ave days of the week, more than 1,000 loads of refuse and rubbish were removed. Dr. J. M. J. Kaunick. city health offi cer. said to-day thai lie believes that the city is becoming cleaner. To morrow the district from Mueneh street to the city limits will be pone over, and next wet-k the entire city will be visited again. Nobel Prize Awarded to Harvard Professor By .-Issoctatrd Press London, Nov. 12. The Nobel prize for psychics for 1914 says a Reuter dispatch from Stockholm has been awarded to Professor Max Von Laue, Frankfort-on-Main. for the discovery of the diffraction of rays in crystals. The chemistry prize for the same year has been awarded to Professor Theo dore William Rithards of Harvard University for fixing the atom weights of chemical elements. The prizes for 1915 will be p.warded to-day. Cambridge, Mass.. Nov. 12. Pro fessor Theodore William Richards, of Harvary University, to whom the No bel prize for chemistry for 1914 has been awarded for fixing the atomic weights of chemical elements, Is direc tor of the Otbbs Memorial Laboratory at Harvard. He is an investigator in physical and inorganic chemistry and the author of papers concerning the significance of changing atomic val ume. With assistants he has revised the atomic weights of oxygen, copper, iron, nlokel calcium, sodium and many ether elements. , LIGHT STANDARDS FOR N. THIRD AND FEDERAL SQUARE Ornamental System to Be Ex tended Uptown to Reily St., " Savs Bowman North Third street from North to Reily streets, and Federal Square will be included in the extension of the or namental standard lighting scheme for 1916, according to City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, to-day. The substitution or the new stand ards for the old-fashioned overhead arcs, has been urged by the recently organized Business Men's Association of North Third street. Forty-eight ornamental standard lamps will be provided according to Mr. Bowman to-day and he already has plans for the extension as pre pared by the Harrisburg Light and Power company. The lighting of Federal Square will also be part of the item for additional lighting which Commissioner Bowman wiir include in his departmental esti mates for next year. "The businessmen up town ' have been well pleased, l understand, with the style of lights placed on North Third street," said the commissioner to-day, "and they have been urging the placing of this type of lights on Third street. That section of town is growing to be a mighty busy one and Third street, particularly is one of the busiest streets in town. We ex pect to put about forty-eight lights there." "What about Federal Square?" Mr. Bowman was askcil. "That, too, will be included in the item we will ask for lighting extension in 1916," said he. "We nope to light the whole Square hut we will light at I least the upper aide of it." The new uptown businessmen's as sociation has planned a number of other improvements for the west end, but further plans will probably not be taken up until after the holidays. Permanent organization will be effect ed early in t{ie new year. The tem porary organization consists of E. L. Rinkcnbaeh, president; W. H. Crown, secretary, whom with H. A. Koblnson, Dr. Charles F. Kramer, C. W. Bogar and E. C. McKee. comprise the execu tive committee. "I Love You" May Irwin Tells President Wilson Washington. D. C., Nov. 12.—May Irwin, the actress, to-day told Presi dent Wilson that she loved him. Not only Miss Irwin, but her husband and her two sons share her affection for Mr. Wilson. Miss Irwin held the President's hand while she told him these things in the executive offices. But the course of Miss Irwin's love is not running smoothly, for, as she told the President, she is grieved be cause the defeat of suffrage in New York State will prevent her from carrying out an ambition to vote for hiin. According to Miss Irwin, this is what she said to the President: "I love you, and It is not because you are President. I have loved you throughout your career. So have my two sons and my husband. You don't know how I have grieved over the defeat of suffrage in New York State, for had it passed I would have been able to vote for you next year." The President expressed his ap preciation of Miss Irwin's senti* ments. HAITI PAYORS PROTECTOHATK Washington, 1). C„ Nov. 12. The State L.epartment received official word to-da.v that the Senate of Haiti had supported the treaty with the United States providing for a virtual Ameri can protectorate over the country. The vote as convened to the State De partment wan 26 to 7. Secretary Lan sing immediately notified President Wilson of the vote. The treaty will go before the United States Senate at the coming session of Congress. "RACE SUICIDE" MENACES RACE Princeton Professor Says City's Old Families Are Dying Out Philadelphia, Nov. 12. Deploring race suicide among the "old families in Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere from voluntary causes," Professor E. G. Conklin. of Princeton University, yesterday advised that "every means be taken to bring about the marriage of the best with the best, for If we prevent the reproduction of the best I aril allow the reproduction of the I worst, the race Is doomed." Professor t'onklin spoke in the | Bel levue-St rat ford, before the conven tion of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. He defined "eugenics" as "good heredity." and urged that every normal man and woman be taught that their most important duty "is to leavo to the race good, wholesome, happy children." He said the idea of a race of "super men" was an iridescent dream, as everyone is born with a faulty heri tage. and mankind cannot solve the problem of eliminating all its unfit as the breeder or plant-grower does, by selecting and breeding only the best. Mankind Is Monsrro! "The only possible chance for lm ! proving the race," he said, "lies in eliminating from reproduction those who have faulty characteristics. We cannot do it as the breeder or plant grower does it. Mankind Will not con sent to be reproduced in breeding pens. .We can only eliminate the worst. Man- I kind is a mongrel race. It is hopeless I to expect to get pure stock. "There is absolutely no one who ■ does not receive a faulty heritage. ! There are some that are so faulty that • they are a menace to society. It is in the power of society to eliminate from j reproduction the dependent class of defectives, who would have died in primitive society, but who survive in modern society because better care is taken of them." Professor Conklln said the two methods suggested were segregation and sterilization, and that he favored segregation because it was less offen sive to public opinion. He added It was ii blot on any civilized state to permit, the intermarriage of idiots. DONATIONS FOR MONT ALTO Special to The Telegraph Meehanicsburg, Pa., Nov. 12. • Do nations of clothing will be received by the Woman's Club, of Mechanics burg for the Mont Alto sanatorium. I.ast year a generous response was given by the citizens of this place, and as much is hoped for this time. The donations will be sent to the hospital by Thanksgiving Day. I I I tilt 4♦ t+>t'H"! l li|. j TELEGRAPH ij |;i TRAVELOGUE j; COUPON , , This coupon ana 100 \ J J } will admit holder to ■ ' ;; The Roberson Travelogue ■' "ITALY" ;; Friday Eve., Nov. 12th;; 1j One-half the house only avail- 1 1 * • able for coupon admission « > SERBIANS DRIVEN FROM POSITIONS Pursuit in Mountain Districts Is Being Pressed Vigor ously 203 MISSING ON ANCONA | i Ambassador Page in Rome in j Consultation With Italian Foreign Office Field Marshal Von Mackensen is' pressing the pursuit of the Serbians in the mountain districts of Central Serbia. Already the Serbians have been ' driven from the first of the ridges south of Krallevo, according to to day's official report from Berlin, while south of Krusevac and elsewhere along the winding line General Put nlk's troops, stubbornly lighting, have been pushed further back into | their hilly defensive positions. The fall of Veles, In Southern Serbia, is imminent after a severe I defeat inflicted upon the Bulgarians by the French, according to a Saloniki dispatch. A report received on Wed nesday that Veles had fallen into French hands was the next day shown to be unfounded. On the French front, Paris reports spirited exchanges by the artillery arm in the vicinity of Loos while near Bus in the Artols district German bat teries were silenced by the French guns. What the loss of life was in the sinking of the Italian liner Ancona by a submarine in the Mediterranean has not been definitely determined. According to a dispatch late last night from Tunis to a Borne news paper only 225 persons, pasengers and crew, out of a total of 128 on board the Ancona, were saved, which would make 203 to be accounted for. Con sular advices to Washington have in dicated that 347 were saved out of 496 said to be on board, leaving 149 unaccounted for. Ambassador Page In Home has been in consultation with the Italian foreign office, presumably seeking facts In connection with the sinking •of the Anconn for transmission to IWashington. There is particular de sire to determine speedily whether the liner was warned and whether the passengers were given sufficient op rContinued on Page 2] \ l .'.-as de | nied at lyii I J tA t(«e br «h» 4 euutj l.a-iva Rail | road Company. It pas said the purchaser was probably J. I Leonard Re}. New idicate. Mr. ( Replogle was form eneral manager | of the Cai ( America The pur- I chase pr be in the neighborhood of $15,000,000. ■ APPOI SERGEANT-AT-ARMS I Workmen's Compensation Board I this afternoo: amuel Powell r Nantico'. 1 geant-at-Arms. The salary is $1,500 a year. WILLIAMS VALLEY RAILWAYS BOUGHT IN 1 trustee's sale this afternoon tl 1 Williams Valley Street Railways running from Lyke.v, to Tower City v ught m by the Bondholders Protective ' Committee ft • - Tl e sale was held hv the Harris^urg Trust Company. ' HAITIAN SENA FE RATIFIES TREATY Port Au Prince Haiti. Nov 12.—After rejecting the re port of a special mission which demanded postponement of the rati cat" the new treaty between Haiti ind the United States, the imiuan Senate has ratified the treaty. The vote of ratification followed a long discussion in the ' upper chamber. The new treaty recently was ratified by the ' Chamber of Deputies. WILL ATTEMPT TO fcND WAR Washington, \ 12. David Starr Jordan, president of LeL nd Etas ersity, and head of the International Peace Congies-. Ie tlv held in San Francitco, told Presi dent WiEon to i, th.it a quasi official meeting of neutral nations piobaL ' / e held some time before Christmas either at The II ue. Beine ot Copenhagen to attempt to bring about in Europe. Dr. Jordan conveyed to the | President & resolution f;om the Peace Congress, urging him ( to co operate with ther neutrals in calling such a confer ence. 1 MARRIAGE U Oliver Drllman Slnimoua and Kuth C. Bower*, city, Hurry tt. Ml.lrr, cltj, nod Kiln M. Hrjnnifr, Month Milton. Cam- ft brrlaml inunt). B Joaeuli «ra> Uerknlth and Ellaabeth tirlffln, city. |L 20 PAGES POSTSCRIPT— FINAL 25,000 CHILDREN AS ROCKEFELLER'S GUESTS AT SHOW Great Throngs Sec Flower Show in Wigmore's Coli seum, Cleveland SPENDS $5,000 FOR TICKETS Financier Pays Admissions of All Students in Ohio City Special to The Telegraph Cleveland, 0., Nov. 12. Twenty five thousand public school children, jthe first section of guests of John 13. | Rockefeller, • swooped down on the | Mower show in Wigmore's Coliseum i yesterday, for a time completely I battling efforts of show officials, nearly | 10« police and a score of firemen to I handle them. | One little girl fainted and one hoy | was trampled in the first wild rush. } after the doors were opened. More | than 18,000 saw the show in two and I one-half hours. j The children were guests of Mr. (Continued on Page 17.) Man Who Tried Suicide Must Answer Charge of Malicious Mischief Special to The Telegraph Lancaster, Pa.. Nov. 12. —Andreas Christian Gronlund, the Dane who at tempted suicide Wednesday evening by leaping through the window of a Pennsylvania Railroad train at Kin" -r j and who was brought to the Lancaster I General Hospital, was removed to the | county prison yesterday. He was | prosecuted by Pennsylvania Railroad I officers for attempted suicide arid j malicious mischief in smashing a car window. Alderman Charles F. Stauffer, who has the case. will investigate the man's antecedents, as he does not be lieve his statement that he attempted I his life because of trouble with com ! panions. Nothing has been heard of the man he is supposed to have had with him on the train. Gronlund's effects reveal nothing, and he sticks to his first story. His injuries are not serious.